Being race secretary is a solitary, thankless pursuit, but short of riding again as a jockey, the race secretary at Hastings Racecourse wouldn’t want to be anywhere else.
“For every person I make happy I make 10 upset,” Milner said as finishing touches were put on the track for Saturday’s opening of its 130th thoroughbred season.“She dumped me every time I rode her, I don’t think I stayed on that pony for the first three months,” Milner said. “My mom said, ‘If you can learn to ride this, you can learn to ride anything.
Her family had moved to Oregon and Milner won her first race, on her parents’ horse, Ken Kelley , at Portland Meadows in 1989 … and then broke her jaw and had several teeth knocked out the next morning when a horse hit her with the back of his head. Eight years, then out of the blue she got a call, Portland Meadows was looking for a paymaster, was she interested? Not on your life, she told them. Never.
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